Firefall

erik! · Sep 2010

UPDATE JAN 4 2013: Heyo! I've got 8 Firefall Beta invites!
PM me your emailz if you wanna get on dat!

http://www.firefallthegame.com/

Red5 Studios has announced their new online team-based shooter Firefall!
Kotaku

Gameplay:
http://vimeo.com/14580971
Cinematic:
http://vimeo.com/14628833

boyluya · Sep 2010

Wow, super badass!! So this is what we have been working on huh?!

I feel great that this is the first ever game I've worked with it!! :poly121:

breakneck · Sep 2010

man, that terrain looks pretty sweet - along with everything else. peaks my interest :P

notman · Sep 2010

Finally! Please be a Tribes replacement

Update: I hope it's modible and for the PC (of course), because if so, I just wet myself

Autocon · Sep 2010

Looks pretty sweet.

Not digging the black lining around the characters as its not around anything else in the game. Dont see the need for it, think it would look better without it.

Either way everything looks pretty slick.

danshewan · Sep 2010

notman wrote: »

Finally! Please be a Tribes replacement

My first thought exactly.

Looks awesome guys, looking forward to seeing more.

salman_fas · Sep 2010

Me excited

aesir · Sep 2010

I thought they were making an MMO? Is this a massive persistent world?

kwakkie · Sep 2010

Looking very cool and unique, I love that giant mech/spider/base thing!

Yeah, I second that the outline on the weapons/characters looks very strange, its like the players character isnt part of the game world?

Also, that girls hair on the last shot could use some work

Sandro · Sep 2010

I want to play this sooooooooooooo badly. Looks really lush and unique and pleasant. Nice break from grungy nitty-gritty stuff

Davision3D · Sep 2010

Looks great. Love the scifi style of the suits and weapons! Kinda reminds me of Piors style. Anyone knows who the concept artist of the characters is?

Vitor · Sep 2010

Cool! Nice to finally see it moving. Good job guys

Lamont · Sep 2010

Looks like Unreal.

glynnsmith · Sep 2010

The 3 middle screens were hard to read for me, but this looks great in motion.

Agree with the outlining.

TheWinterLord · Sep 2010

Cool! oh its a MMO?

planaria · Sep 2010

my two questions, whats there workflow with that terrain ? did they just sculpt the whole thing?

and second, if they did just sculpt the whole thing how big can the world be?

p.s. i would also ditch the black outlines.. totally not needed. the terrains really stood out to me as awesome though.

IronHawk · Sep 2010

Stoked to have been a small part of this. Fun project with a cool style.

ebagg · Sep 2010

Nice to see the art style is more cartoony for a space marine game! The trailer was cool, definitely looking forward to more info on this game!

rolfness · Sep 2010

cool ..nice look

Axios · Sep 2010

Autocon wrote: »

Looks pretty sweet.

Not digging the black lining around the characters as its not around anything else in the game. Dont see the need for it, think it would look better without it.

Either way everything looks pretty slick.

This. It always bothers me when games do that, cause it looks like two styles that, while are nice on their own, battle each other and hurt the overall image. Also, it reminds me of old cartoons like Scooby-Doo when you see the clear difference of style between the animator and background painter and it totally gives away that the bookcase is about to move.

System · Sep 2010

Reminds me a bit of Global Agenda meets Borderlands but looks sexier than both. Doubt ill play it with now im stuck into SC2 though T_T

That being said though, Tribes was one of the games i always wanted to get into but couldnt due to being on a 56k at the time... such an awesome teamgame.

Taylor Hood · Sep 2010

Ugh, that looks so awesome =]

crazyfingers · Sep 2010

As a tribes fan this is very appealing! Kinda like tribes meets WOW, could be horribly addicting! I wish the videos had more over the top jetpack use but i can see how complicated controls would alienate the mass market, maybe at high levels?

I'll second what others have said about the black line around the characters, seems like a cop-out to try to make the characters more interesting. Though i really like the armor style the characters themselves need *something* to make them a bit more unique. The current skin materials just don't have enough pop and the armor's really overshadowing them. Better hair materials and animations would go a long way too.

Definitely keepin an eye on this one.

James Edwards · Sep 2010

The main concept artists for the characters were Arnold Tsang and Joe Peterson with additional work from Doug Gregory, esp on creatures.

Martin Henriksson · Sep 2010

This look like it will be a ton of fun to play with a few friends! Abit like borderlands but with cooler abilities and large mmoish servers ?

Blaizer · Sep 2010

when i watched the videos, i say: "borderlands?"

It looks very nice, and for free?

seforin · Sep 2010

I'm on vacation in puerto Rico on my phone right now, but this is what I've been working on at liquid for the lastfew months and the reason I'm partying so hard right now in pr. I'm glad to see alot of the stuff I worked on ( and help fix up) was shown on the big screen

great job all you guys here who worked with me on this project. (especiallybrad since he got ablood cloth in the process of helping!! Haha)

Drav · Sep 2010

Ye looks really good guys, good art ofc, but a fun and 'new' game too from what i can tell.....

Farfarer · Sep 2010

Looks great fun

Awesome work, guys!

notman · Sep 2010

Does anyone know if this will be a PC game? *stares at Seforin*

Update: Scratch that, I see it will be a Windows ONLY game. So, next question, will it be modible? I really hope so, but based on the business model, I somehow doubt it will be

(which is sort of a deal killer for me)

55joe · Sep 2010

ive been working on this for about 4 years now, so glad we can finally talk about it!
liquids stuff was pretty badass i must say.
to crazyfingers the jumpjets are just average level and will be upgradeable.
and to notman, dont quote me on anything because i could be wrong:D i dont think its suppose to be moddable?

Hebs · Sep 2010

this game is pure hotness, saw the live demo at pax and was blown away.
Awesome cinematic intro too good job Red5.

doc rob · Sep 2010

Very cool. The opening of the gameplay movie was alright, got a little slow when they were killing bugs, but then the transport ship flyaround definitely had my jaw on the floor. What an awesome seamless world. Big open seamless multiplayer persistent world plus FPS is a combination that is ripe for the picking.

XenoKratios · Sep 2011

So I hear the(you) guys at Red 5 will be sending out some beta keys this week?

Oh how I wait here silently checking my email for a beta invite *glances at a distance, thinking about 55joe, then looks away quickly*.

http://www.firefallthegame.com/home

seforin · Sep 2011

Thanks for stop asking

Game looks fun, I did a ton of stuff on this project so well see whats up when its out. Be fun to see some of the zones I worked on.

SimonT · Sep 2011

I played the PVP on GamesCom and was pretty surprised! It felt like a shooter and i got immediately into the game. Normally i don't like these MMO's and need a lot time to get the controls and stuff.

Will of course check Firefall out when it'S out!

Torch · Sep 2011

Did anyone else think this was Borderlands meets Starcraft? :P

Papa_Austin · Sep 2011

notman wrote: »

Finally! Please be a Tribes replacement

Update: I hope it's modible and for the PC (of course), because if so, I just wet myself

It looks like they might be using the outlines to pop the characters so they are not lost in the environment? just a guess..

Jeremy-S · Sep 2011

The art and design on everything is freaking amazing. You guys did a great job. The scale was great too. I wasn't expecting much here, but man it looks like it's gonna be another game I have to buy

James Edwards · Sep 2011

It won't be modable... at least not initially - I've heard no plans either way on this so I could very well be wrong. It's enough for us to launch it for free and hope people want to purchase items and such in-game. If they don't, well then... I prefer not to think of what that means. =]

Jeremy: It's free to play. Feel free to send money anyway though. =]

EmAr · Sep 2011

I'm not into this genre but this game looks nice. I like both in-game graphics and the concept art a lot

XenoKratios · Sep 2011

Relax, I corrected it.

From what I see, to this point, it's an amazing game. I'm sure they will have a cash shop type system, because I wouldn't mind helping out the company.

Maybe someone from the company can answer this question for me?

-Are you guys going to keep using that "offset engine", or something more commercial?

I would love to see what this engine can do to compete graphically with upcoming games.

Ferg · Sep 2011

the art for this is game is fckn awesome.

...also I worked on it as a freelancer

gavku · Sep 2011

so is this going to be some sort of freemium game?

Eric Chadwick · Apr 2012

Playing the beta, and loving it! The art style is so refreshing, so pretty. Monster designs are fresh, the combat is fun, weapons look and shoot great, the sound is awesome. Some rough edges here and there in the game mechanics, but it's all basically there and working. Good work guys!

ScoobyDoofus · Apr 2012

I'm just wondering why I've never been chosen for a beta key!

Ace-Angel · Apr 2012

How is the gameplay? Anyone got a description?

Andreas · Apr 2012

I was also curious.

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Gameplay looks nice, great idea in the resource collector attracting baddies, kinda like HL2, but the opposite. That outlines gotta go though... And almost all of the animations need some SERIOUS love...

Ace-Angel · Apr 2012

So it's essentially a mixture of Tribes and Borderlands, with a dash of Half-Life, and pinch of Starcraft?

Not bad, I'm just wondering the more intricate elements, and if the game is zoned, instanced, or not, and how the PVP and PVE elements in a more 'FPS' like game are employed.

Looked up on google but couldn't find a video that had all those information

Farfarer · Apr 2012

ScoobyDoofus wrote: »

I'm just wondering why I've never been chosen for a beta key!

Been waiting ages for one, too

D4V1DC · Apr 2012

Talon wrote: »

Been waiting ages for one, too

I would also like to get in on this beta, really like the way the game is looking. Some of the concept artwork on their forums isn't bad either at least 1 guys art is decent, he's made quite a few characters already.

Good jobs guys, those of you who worked on this!
Thanks for sharing.

Firefall

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